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Dr. Gulnaz Abdukadir’s Biography

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, May, 1993. Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Uma Lele.

Dissertation Title: “The Impact of China Structural Adjustment on Its External Trade”

• M.S. in Food and Resources Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, December, 1990. Adviser, Dr. Max Langham.

• M.S. in Agricultural Economics, University of California at Davis, May, 1987. Advisor, Dr. Alex McCallar.

• B.S. in Agricultural Economic Management, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, The People's Republic of China, 1982.

Licensed: Series 7, Series 63, Series 65 and Annuity & Life Insurance.

Brief Biography

Gulnaz Abdukadir was born in the center of Central Asia, in Kulja, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, right on the border with Kazakhstan to the west, China to the east. She is a mix of Uyghur and Uzbek, her family naturally speaks Uyghur and Uzbek. By growing up in this region, she is also familiar with Kazak, Kyrgis, Tatar etc. Her parents are university graduates, who knowing the importance of the Chinese language by living in that region, sent Gulnaz to Chinese school from first grade. In 1996 she graduated from high school and went to Red-flag People’s Commune to get her “ reeducation” from peasants based on the Chairman Mao’s call. In those two years on this Collective Farm, Gulnaz Served as Chair of the Women's Union, team leader of the Youth Team, and manager of the Farm Production Brigade. She was responsible for the policy, production and marketing of the farm; responsible for the agribusiness, health clinic, rural school education and social welfare of the commune; responsible for women's well being in their economic and political aspects; responsible for the youth team's production activities, technical improvement and extracurricular activities. At the end of Chinese 10 year long Cultural Revolution, in the spring of 1978, she came to Urumqi and studied at Xinjiang Agricultural University (Ba-Nong) in as an Agricultural Economic Management major. After earning her B.S. degree, she worked as an instructor at the Agricultural University from 1982 to 1984. During this period she taught agriculture marketing and Farm Management classes to Uyghur students and participated in the publishing of the Chinese–English Agricultural Economic Dictionary, she also contributed chapters on Farm Management and Land Management for the national unified textbook for agricultural economics at the universities of China. She also spent some time at Nanjing Agricultural University, Henan University and Xiann Foreign Language Institute for a variety of academic activities and for technical improvement. In January 1985 she came to the University of California, Davis to study for her Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics, and earned her M.S degree in 1987. During this period she estimated a demand model on food grains, conducted a research paper on futures markets and taught microeconomics and econometrics courses. In 1987, she went to the University of Florida in Gainesville to further her graduate studies and earned her second Master’s degree in Food and Resources Economics in 1990 and a Ph.D. in the Economics Department of Business School in 1993. During this time at the University of Florida, she worked in the Overseas Studies Program and the Food and Resource Economics Department and conducted research on various demand models for agriculture commodities, citrus processing and trade, the international grain market, international trade distortions, the labor market, China’s transitional economy. She also produced various academic papers and taught production economics courses for graduate students.

Because of her experience in the rural area following her high school graduation, she was eager to pursue for the studies in Economics and to apply this knowledge to the real world. After earning her Ph.D. degree, she has concentrated on empirical work. In 1992, ever before she finished her Ph.D. dissertation she was invited to come to work in the World Bank. For 7 years at the World Bank she worked in two different regions and in many different countries. She worked as a Task Manager and led and/or participated on teams of sector specialists in conceptualizing, analyzing, developing and implementing a number of different agriculture and rural development activities within the Central Asia Regions and Eastern Europe. She supervised the design of a Farm Restructuring Support Project in Turkmenistan including policy negotiations with recipient government officials. She wrote a proposal and received PHRD Japanese grant funding to support the development of this project. She led an identification mission and managed fieldwork, and prepared and presented a Project Concept Document (PCD) to the Region's review committee. She identified and engaged experts to help develop components of the project. She mobilized supporting resources for the project preparation, conducted field assessments and helped recipient officials identify suitable areas for implementation of the project. She coordinated and participated in a major midterm assessment for the North-East Rural Development Project in Albania. She supervised the project implementation. She negotiated the terms and condition of the Land Registration Project with the Government of the Kyrgiz Republic. She had work experience on Portfolio Management. She was responsible for monitoring, updating/implementing, reminding and sometimes training operational staff on various project activities, including project information documents, appraisals, project status reports, project effectiveness and initial Audit Report Compliance System (ARCS) data, supervision reports, reminder of impending closing date, time of project problem status and audit report compliance. She contributed to project portfolio management reports and advised department management about the units’ portfolio status. She worked on Operation Evaluation Department’s (OED) Rural Development Study. She evaluated 30 different projects in six sub-sectors in 20 different countries.

She worked as an economist, assessed price structures of agricultural commodities; evaluated price policies (inflation, farm-gate price, input supply price); examined trade barriers to agricultural crops; assessed farm and crop profitability, analyzed incentive factors for production activities and the availability of credit for farming. She made economic, financial, risk and sensitivity analyses of various projects. She critiqued and evaluated various Bank and consultant reports. Country-specific economist work experiences are listed below. Uzbekistan: Participated as a team member for project preparation and preappraisal work for a farming enterprise support project. Performed micro-economic and program evaluation analyses relating to project identification, preparation, appraisal, negotiation and supervision of the Cotton Sub-Sector Improvement Project. Drafted initial Executive Project Summary(IEPS), reviewed all consultants' reports, drafted elements of Staff Appraisal Report (SAR), implemented Project Preparation Facility (PPF), and drafted a Monitoring and Evaluation Guideline for the country. She worked as deputy task manager and played a major role in communications with Government counterparts on various technical and policy-related issues. She drafted an environmental assessment and prepared procurement and disbursement schedules. She performed related program administration functions, such as: documentation research before and after field missions (prepared TOR, consultant contract, Aide-Memoirs and Back-to-Office Report, etc.).For Agricultural Sector Review, analyzed recent sector developments and trends in, e.g., livestock production, crop profitability. Drafted cotton sub-sector review, which covered conditions in farm-level production, ginning, textile manufacturing, environmental impact, product distribution and marketing. Kazakhstan: Irrigation and Drainage Project and Agricultural Privatization Support Project. Served as Deputy task manager and team Member for project preparation and project appraisal activities. Conducted economic, financial and risk analyses of the projects; designed investment costs schedules, drafted parts of the Project Concept Document(PCD) and SAR and prepared Project Preparation Funding documentation. Turkmenistan: As a Country Team member, set the stage for dialogue with the Recipient Government by proposing agricultural program concepts. Helped develop economic and financial aspects of the Irrigation Rehabilitation Project. Critiqued a number of Bank and non-Bank documents relating to project and program design. Tajikistan: Participated in the preparation of Rehabilitation Credit Loan. Prepared agricultural components and covered policy and technical dialogues with officials related to agriculture improvements. China: Analyzed Chinese provincial grain supply and demand situation, examined the elements’ impact on the production and consumption of grain for each province. contributed to the design of the China grain project. Participated in supervision mission of the Tarim Irrigation and Drainage Project and the Agricultural Development Project. Reviewed income distribution due to the project, impact on women in project areas, impact on development activities for minorities and livestock component. Developed a model to determine the project’s impact on farmers' incomes.

In 1999, due to her family’s need she left the World Bank and accepted a “no travel required job” with Edward Jones Investment firm working as an Investment Representative in Mclean, VA, near her home. She created a new branch office and business from scratch and trained other financial personnel. She provided professional investment and insurance options to individual investor and small businesses. She researched, reviewed and made investment recommendations based on clients’ objective and needs. She made regular reviews of clients’ portfolios and gave appropriate, current investment advice based on their changing needs and market fluctuations. She regularly presented seminars on a variety of subjects to a variety of audiences. In 2003, she joined Citigroup as a financial Executive to further apply her knowledge at corporate level.

Gulnaz and her husband, Sokrat Saydahmet married in the spring of 1987, and have three children; a daughter, Uncheay, born December, 1989; a son, Baburjan born December, 1996 and a daughter, Gulenay, born January 1998.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS, STUDIES, REPORTS AND ARTICTLES

1. “Critique Turkmenistan: Dashkhovuz - Regional Development Priorities

Decision Draft 'Green' Cover” World Bank, 1998.

2. “Turkmenistan Farm Restructuring Support Project Concept Document” World

Bank, 1997.

3. "Irrigation And Drainage Improvement Project, Appraisal Report World Bank,

1996 Contributed on Project Benefit and Risk chapter.

4. “Kulja County’s Implementation of Family Contract Responsibility System In

the People’s Republic of China” presented at International Work Shop on

Agricultural Restructuring in Uzbekistan, 1996.

5. "Cotton Subsector Improvement Project Appraisal Report" World Bank, 1994.

With three other team members.

6. “Uzbekistan Agriculture Sector Work” Contributed on Farm Level Chapter, World

Bank,1993.

7. "Responses in China's Free Market for Food with Structural Adjustment in The

Agricultural Sector" University of Florida FRED Research publication, April

1993.

8. “China’s Provincial Grain Balance” World Bank report, 1992.

9. "Liquidity Constraints as a Cause of Moonlighting " Applied Economics,

1992, 24, 1307-1310.

10.“The Impact of China Structural Adjustment on Its External Trade” Univ. of

Florida, 1992.

11. “Land Issue in China” Univ. of Florida, 1991

12. “Research Proposal on International Marketing” Univ. of Florida 1990.

13. “The effect of the U.S. Citrus Tariff on Producer Price and Welfare” Univ.

of Florida, 1990.

14. "Introduction of American Futures Market". Published in Zi Liao China

National Research Center for Rural Development. 1987, NO.2

15. “China’s Agricultural Policy: Recent Development and Implications for

Foreign Trade” Xinjiang Noung Ye, 1987

16. “The Tashkent Meat-Packing Operation in New York: an Anomaly in the Modern

U.S. Meat-Packing Industry and a Comparison with the Harris Ranch” Xinjiang

Noung Ye , 1987.

17 “The Preliminary application of Macroeconomics to Recent Economic Changes in

China”, ” University of California, 1986.

18. “Financial Analysis for Universal Food Corporation” University of

California, 1986.

19. "The Need for Improved Management of Dairy Food Sources in the Suburban

Areas of Uighur Autonomous Region of North West China." published in

Cattle Science April 1981 and reprinted in UAR Cattle Feed Materials

1982.